Ramanand Sagar’s 1976 hit film Charas is famous for being the first Bollywood movie to highlight drug menace and now the Dharmendra and Hema Malini-starrer has landed the late filmmaker’s kin into fresh income tax trouble.
The 1976 Dharmendra-Hema Malini starrer superhit ‘Charas’ has ran into legal trouble more than four decades later.
It has turned out Ramanand Sagar, the maker, manipulated figures to reduce tax liability.
The anomaly showed up in the 1976-77 I-T returns filed by Sagar’s company.
The late filmmaker’s heirs have now been asked to pay over Rs. 6L as penalty. Here’s all about it.
The late filmmaker’s heirs asked to pay Rs 6 lakh penalty for the income earned from Dharmendra-starrer .
Forty-one years after its release, ’s superhit Charas, one of the first Bollywood movies to talk about drug menace, has landed Sagar’s kin into tax trouble. The reason being an anomaly in disclosing the amount received as guarantee money while selling the Mumbai distribution rights for the movie.
